The Balsillie Papers provides clear, concise, peer-reviewed articles about today’s most complex issues in global governance and international affairs.
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Economic Security and Prosperity: Leveraging Canada’s Potash and Strategic Partnerships
Mejgan Shefa, Julia Chapman and Sahar Hamdam
Canada must address infrastructure bottlenecks, transportation constraints and weak supply chain coordination while diversifying their trade partners if they are to fully leverage its dominant position in potash production.
RECENT PAPERS
Governing Machine-speed Cyber Defence: Policy Frameworks for Agentic AI
Abbas Yazdinejad, Hadis Karimipour and Jatin NathwaniThis paper assesses gaps in governance of machine-speed security through the lens of defending a critical societal infrastructure, focusing on energy and smart grid systems. This paper also proposes four governing principles to guide international policymaking around agentic cyber defence.
The Paused Continental Defence Bargain: Architecture, Asymmetry and the 2026 CUSMA Joint Review
Barry AppletonThis paper contends that the pause is the defence-side expression of an integrated US strategy that treats trade, technology and continental security as a single negotiating surface rather than as separate policy domains.
Defending Canada’s Information Sovereignty: Aligning with the EU’s Digital Services Act
Marcus KolgaJust as Canada works with its allies to defend its physical borders and national sovereignty, it must also cooperate with them to protect the integrity and sovereignty of its information space.